Sports
Athletic achievements, sports science, and recreation
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Sports
The first screw-in soccer studs were made from scraps of tire rubber
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Sports
A basketball shot is most likely to go in at a forty-five degree angle
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Sports
A basketball defensive stance mimics the same joint angles a cheetah uses to pivot
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Sports
A professional tennis serve can strike with the force of a car crash
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Sports
A unique biomechanical coaching style helps one nation produce a record concentration of elite athletes
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Sports
A professional golf swing turns human legs into levers that exert four times their body weight
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Sports
A horse's speed can change by fifteen percent based on how much water is in the soil
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Sports
International sports disputes are settled by a private court in Switzerland
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Sports
A soccer ball can curve mid-air by using the same physics as an airplane wing
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A professional baseball pitch generates enough arm torque to snap a human bone
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Sports
Hockey pucks are frozen before games to prevent them from bouncing like rubber balls
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Sports
Judo masters use skeletal levers to amplify their physical strength fivefold
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Sports
The one-inch punch generates massive force by mimicking the physics of a whip
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In 2017, the International Olympic Committee banned an entire nation for systemic doping
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In 2004, thirteen runners started a simple time trial that grew into parkrun
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